Midyette Baby Death

Speaking out for the first time since their daughter's failed bid for a new trial, the parents of Molly Midyette asked a group of supporters in Boulder on Wednesday night not to give up hope that Midyette will be exonerated in the death of her 10-week-old son.
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Molly Midyette's parents are "devastated" by a Boulder district judge's decision to not grant her a new trial in the 2006 death of her 10-week-old son, according to a friend who is imploring supporters to stand behind the jailed mother.
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Saying Molly Midyette is an "intelligent, assertive law school graduate" who was "actively engaged" in her own defense, a judge Monday denied her request for a new trial in the 2006 death of her newborn baby.
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A hearing to determine whether Molly Midyette should get a new trial in the 2006 death of her 10-week-old son closed Thursday with her appeals attorney arguing that her trial attorney ignored signs of abuse that should have led him to present a very different defense.
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A hearing to determine whether Molly Midyette should get a new trial in the death of her 10-week-old son is expected to conclude Thursday, after prosecutors Wednesday called an acquaintance to refute claims of abuse during the Midyettes' bizarre wedding anniversary in 2007.
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Shortly before Molly Midyette met with an expert on battered woman syndrome to describe how her then-husband abused and controlled her, recording equipment at the Boulder County Jail captured a conversation between Alex and Molly Midyette in which they repeatedly say they love and miss each other.
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Special prosecutors from the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office spent much of Monday grilling the psychologist known as the "mother of battered woman syndrome" about her evaluation of Molly Midyette.
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"You have to help me because I think that he did this and I have to get out of the house and I have to leave," a tearful Molly Bowers told her friends after a St. Patrick's Day fight in which she learned that her then-husband, Alex Midyette, had never stopped using cocaine.
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Prosecutors tried to cast doubt Friday on Molly Midyette's claim that she was abused by her ex-husband -- claims that didn't surface until after she was convicted of child abuse resulting in the 2006 death of her 10-week-old son.
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In a lengthy cross-examination, Senior Chief Deputy District Attorney Eva Wilson tried to draw out contradictions in testimony from Molly Midyette's mother, Jane Bowers, and show that evidence of abuse arose out of nowhere after Midyette was convicted.
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